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Because Black history isn't just the past — it’s the heartbeat of our community every single day.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3612250, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612250/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T11:13:48-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Everyone Falls in Love", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c946d706-6d7c-4635-a059-3b03cf650e6d", "artist": "Tanto Metro ft. Devonte", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Everyone Falls in Love", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Penthouse / VP Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1999-08-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A massive dancehall crossover hit that helped bring the duo to international attention.\n\nTanto Metro and Devonte, a major pioneering force of the dancehall movement, has been creating hits for over two decades now. In the late ’90s, they were able to pave the way for many reggae artistes. They tapped into the international mainstream markets during a time when it was unheard of for a Jamaican artiste to reach the charts outside of their home country. Tanto and Devonte’s instant chemistry and talent led them beyond Jamaica and into the U.S. Top 40 Billboard chart not once, but twice. Their first hit, “Everyone Falls in Love,” swept up several major awards in 1998 including the Tamika and South Florida Reggae Soca Awards; and the ASCAP 2000 Rhythm and Souls Music Awards for being one of the top reggae artistes in 1999. The single hit the top 40 R&B and pop U.S. billboard charts and aired on radio throughout the globe. The subsequent album, bearing the same name was released by Sony Epic records in 1999; it featured a number of body-moving tracks like “Say Whoee” and “She Gone.”\n\nhttps://tantometroanddevonte.net/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612249, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612249/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T11:09:50-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ef4bda32-4613-31f5-bacf-ada0ea780ff4/5195553544-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ef4bda32-4613-31f5-bacf-ada0ea780ff4/5195553544-250.jpg", "song": "Juicy Fruit", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1d890c2b-2ba3-4b34-9196-64d5cb0cc0dc", "artist": "Mtume", "artist_ids": [ "3e0ad499-0d3b-4445-8224-c63b4ad46317" ], "album": "Juicy Fruit", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e94f6dcc-38d1-3658-a94e-7e57531389ba", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1983-04-22", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "One of the era’s most sampled tracks, later influencing hip-hop classics. The 1983 album by R&B group Mtume featured their No. 1 R&B hit, \"Juicy Fruit\". The classic song features lead vocals by Tawatha Agee. \n\n1983 video of \"Juicy Fruit\"!\nhttps://youtu.be/EYE5QEBOMA8\n\nJames Mtume started his career as a jazz percussionist. He was in Miles Davis’s band for the first half of the 1970s, but in the late ’70s he pivoted to R&B: He co-wrote hits for Roberta Flack and Stephanie Mills, produced albums and formed a group, Mtume, which had major hits with his songs “Juicy Fruit” and “You, Me and He.”\n\nhttps://www.mtumemusic.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612248, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612248/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T11:05:29-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/358521b5-bb68-4f5e-b704-0c0a44f8dc33/30391615737-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/358521b5-bb68-4f5e-b704-0c0a44f8dc33/30391615737-250.jpg", "song": "Anything", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "793f83c5-9cdb-4087-b2ba-6ee5078a8a56", "artist": "SWV", "artist_ids": [ "fffc6a35-ae65-48be-bcc0-9d604e05665e" ], "album": "It’s About Time", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "99d83046-c0b4-3731-a702-ced83c1d83b6", "labels": [ "RCA" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946" ], "release_date": "1992-10-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The soundtrack to the 1994 film Above the Rim. It was written and produced by Brian Alexander Morgan.\n\nIn 1992, a trio of vocally talented women called SWV was introduced to the music world.\n\nThe RCA debut, It’s About Time, produced a string of top ten R&B hits including: “I’m So Into You,” “Right Here,” “Downtown,” “Weak,” and “You’re Always On My Mind.” This montage of musical success established the trio as a commercial force early in 1993. Teddy Riley mentored the group in honing their craft and sound and, as a result, produced the remix to the hit, “Right Here,” which featured samples of Michael Jackson’s hit. The partnership also produced another hit single, “Human Nature,” which topped the R&B charts at number one and popular charts at number two. SWV earned 11 Billboard Music Award nominations for its debut album. https://www.swvmusic.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612247, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612247/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T11:03:31-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3612246, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612246/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:58:38-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I’m Every Woman", "track_id": "a744d9d9-0ad5-3a5d-9beb-bf5c89077b9c", "recording_id": "60d5478a-fe3c-429d-aeed-79206f40f20d", "artist": "Whitney Houston", "artist_ids": [ "0307edfc-437c-4b48-8700-80680e66a228" ], "album": "The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album", "release_id": "11cafb9e-5fbc-49c7-b920-4ff754e03e93", "release_group_id": "9577b974-cce5-35b2-82d0-0969e5484a73", "labels": [ "Arista" ], "label_ids": [ "c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33" ], "release_date": "1992-11-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Whitney Houston covered this Chaka Khan song for \"The Bodyguard.\" It was the debut solo single for Chaka Khan, who had established a career with the group Rufus. The song was written by the famous husband-and-wife songwriting team Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson.\n\nWhitney Elizabeth Houston--August 9, 1963-February 11, 2012.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612245, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612245/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:54:51-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/42ab5278-3d2f-4d30-9785-17ffa8d587f4/38991533939-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/42ab5278-3d2f-4d30-9785-17ffa8d587f4/38991533939-250.jpg", "song": "Tell Me Something Good", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "629056de-7b82-47af-af3c-3071df15a32a", "artist": "Rufus featuring Chaka Khan", "artist_ids": [ "ec6b11b5-d6a6-4c77-af55-8076a160cc94", "900e9144-019d-4043-86cb-ec0e127c39d0" ], "album": "Rags to Rufus", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "78ea6eb4-a10e-3b37-af06-53a42b59397d", "labels": [ "ABC Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c3e5d5a2-53f2-4eab-9641-23d61e511928" ], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Rufus released \"Tell Me Something Good\" on the 1974 album Rags to Rufus.\nStevie Wonder wrote this song and recorded it himself, but his version was never released because he gave the song to Rufus -- since Stevie was a fan of their lead singer, Chaka Khan.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612244, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612244/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:52:02-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "BEEN SO LONG", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "shekdash X DAYE", "artist_ids": [], "album": "BEEN SO LONG", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2024-07-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A Baltimore Club Mix of \"Been So Long\" - Anita Baker\n\nhttps://shekdash.bandcamp.com/track/been-so-long-shekdash-x-daye", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612243, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612243/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:49:34-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3612242, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612242/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:45:25-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Keepin’ Faith in Love", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e455f7cc-7337-42d9-97a6-dd608b97a280", "artist": "Patrice Rushen", "artist_ids": [ "a247b1b8-8f47-4568-9a89-fa16b4a2b77f" ], "album": "Pizzazz", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "90c2495f-68fa-3534-b5e6-11d59aa9e9d1", "labels": [ "Elektra" ], "label_ids": [ "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9" ], "release_date": "1979-10-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Patrice Rushen is an award-winning musician and composer who is also one of the most sought after artists in the music industry. She is a classically trained pianist who originally found success in the 70's and 80's with her signature fusion of jazz, pop and R&B. During this era, she composed and recorded the hit song, \"Forget Me Nots,\" which has been frequently covered and sampled by other artists and is a NEA Jazz Master.\n\nRushen is also a three-time, Grammy nominee who has composed scores for movies and television. She has been the first female musical director for many of the entertainment industry's top award shows, which include the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, the People's Choice Awards, the NAACP Image Awards and HBO's \"Comic Relief V.\"\"\n\nhttps://patricerushen.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612241, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612241/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:40:28-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0ec46d2b-99b5-43a9-b0a6-f2a266a725ed/4135642689-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0ec46d2b-99b5-43a9-b0a6-f2a266a725ed/4135642689-250.jpg", "song": "You Dropped a Bomb on Me", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c7f337f9-898c-4d55-b99d-51be661a702e", "artist": "The Gap Band", "artist_ids": [ "00aab979-da36-4efd-9086-e409cda07f9c" ], "album": "Gap Band IV", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "3b067281-433f-3d9b-8999-3420c6ddacdc", "labels": [ "Total Experience Records" ], "label_ids": [ "e02a8483-4ee7-4d25-8b56-4f2b7ce2c651" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "”You Dropped a Bomb on Me”, is regarded as the defining song, and the brightest moment, for The Gap Band.\n\nFor some time, a rumor swirled about the real meaning of the song, \"You Dropped a Bomb on Me\". Listeners who know the origin of the band have long suspected the song may have been written to shed a light on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.\n\nThe Gap Band's lead singer, Charlie Wilson, said he and his brothers, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, grew up in Tulsa just a few blocks from the Greenwood District, the Black neighborhood that was destroyed in the massacre. Charlie Wilson wrote the song, and said that despite the rumors, the only bomb the song is referring to is one made of love.\n\nhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/gap-band-leader-discusses-hit-songs-connection-1921/story?id=76886953\n\nhttps://gapband.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612240, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612240/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:39:18-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c786da8c-149e-4ed6-bfd7-9d966016c4ab/14869120101-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c786da8c-149e-4ed6-bfd7-9d966016c4ab/14869120101-250.jpg", "song": "Black Is", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "074e4c7a-0b32-4c15-8b8c-eb611135655e", "artist": "The Last Poets", "artist_ids": [ "9457a08d-a2d0-4f2d-9876-b8870612d54f" ], "album": "This Is Madness", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "f22006bb-dc6a-3493-8bbd-3e4cb52fdd22", "labels": [ "Douglas Music" ], "label_ids": [ "feb3d741-bc02-42f7-9dae-87ce5a0ae086" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Before RAP knew its name, there was a group of ambitious young men who reflected the harsh spirit of their times and whose work remains prophetic and inspirational today. The Last Poets started out in the late sixties, speaking out as few other musical groups had, or have since, about racism, poverty and other African American and societal concerns. RAPPERS of the civil rights era, The Last Poets’ charge has been taken up by many contemporary artists who have felt the legendary group’s influence.\" https://www.thelastpoets.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612239, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612239/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:36:02-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/361986fa-2f14-44b1-abba-905944443aca/40543609791-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/361986fa-2f14-44b1-abba-905944443aca/40543609791-250.jpg", "song": "Getaway", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "49d77914-3914-44fe-b331-1473d0a26ba6", "artist": "Earth, Wind & Fire", "artist_ids": [ "535afeda-2538-435d-9dd1-5e10be586774" ], "album": "Spirit", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dc5fbe50-47bc-3687-b4eb-147d5a3b428e", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Earth, Wind & Fire playing:\n-Seattle - August 3rd (Climate Pledge Arena)\n-San Francisco - August 6th (Chase Center)\n\n#1 Disco/funk hit from 1976. \n\nThe band chose the name \"Spirit\" for this LP after the track by the same name they'd written to show their gratitude to producer Charles Stepney -- but he never got to hear the song, as he died of sudden heart attack on May 17, 1976. The band went on to name this album after that tribute track in Stepney's memory.\n\nhttps://www.earthwindandfire.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612237, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612237/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:32:54-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3612236, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612236/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:29:15-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ba91f9e2-2391-4bbd-9114-c9eff138fd98/23121356179-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ba91f9e2-2391-4bbd-9114-c9eff138fd98/23121356179-250.jpg", "song": "What’s Going On", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "11a45460-2db8-4312-bef7-c4b000bb0ebd", "artist": "Marvin Gaye", "artist_ids": [ "afdb7919-059d-43c1-b668-ba1d265e7e42" ], "album": "What’s Going On", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c1fa4d2c-ec62-37d5-b01d-6df7f8fd2c90", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1971-05-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The central theme of \"What's Going On\" and the album of the same name came from Marvin Gaye's own life. When his brother Frankie returned from Vietnam, Gaye noticed that his outlook had changed. He put himself in his brother's shoes and wrote a song that stands among the most tuneful works of consciousness-raising in American music.\n\"What's Going On\" looked at the forces shaping American culture at the beginning of the 1970s, that moment when hippie-era idealism crashed into the realities of poverty, of mystifying war, drug abuse and racial misunderstanding.: https://www.npr.org/2000/08/07/1080444/npr-100-whats-going-on", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612235, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612235/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:25:23-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/34bf0064-0b15-4759-9964-d177c58fc7d8/19800314051-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/34bf0064-0b15-4759-9964-d177c58fc7d8/19800314051-250.jpg", "song": "The Other Side of Town", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3faa6175-eda2-4b2a-9152-c3cc888185bb", "artist": "Curtis Mayfield", "artist_ids": [ "4dca4bb2-23ba-4103-97e6-5810311db33a" ], "album": "Curtis", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0c24e81f-b710-3e24-a4fa-12950e153585", "labels": [ "Curtom Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0de50eca-0acc-492c-8840-7eae9f04e739" ], "release_date": "1970-09-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Perhaps because he didn't cross over to the pop audience as heavily as Motown's stars, it may be that the scope of Curtis Mayfield's talents and contributions have yet to be fully recognized. Judged merely by his records alone, the man's legacy is enormous. As the leader of the Impressions, he recorded some of the finest soul vocal group music of the 1960s. As a solo artist in the 1970s, he helped pioneer funk and helped introduce hard-hitting urban commentary into soul music. \"Gypsy Woman,\" \"It's All Right,\" \"People Get Ready,\" \"Freddie's Dead,\" and \"Super Fly\" are merely the most famous of his many hit records.\n\nBut Curtis Mayfield wasn't just a singer. He wrote most of his material at a time when that was not the norm for soul performers. He was among the first -- if not the very first -- to speak openly about African-American pride and community struggle in his compositions. As a songwriter and a producer, he was a key architect of Chicago soul, penning material and working on sessions by notable Windy City soulsters like Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, Major Lance, and Billy Butler. In this sense, he can be compared to Smokey Robinson, who also managed to find time to write and produce many classics for other soul stars. Mayfield was also an excellent guitarist, and his rolling, Latin-influenced lines were highlights of the Impressions' recordings in the '60s. During the next decade, he would toughen up his guitar work and production, incorporating some of the best features of psychedelic rock and funk.\" (allmusic's Richie Unterberger): https://bit.ly/4kfLt10.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612234, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612234/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:22:46-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/02f43c06-03db-4b0a-8259-6e0bc533e8c7/2807462779-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/02f43c06-03db-4b0a-8259-6e0bc533e8c7/2807462779-250.jpg", "song": "Ain’t It Hell Up in Harlem", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "5f778275-9ce4-4763-97b4-691c2cd60029", "artist": "Edwin Starr", "artist_ids": [ "9eace815-06f3-487c-bf3a-1a817e248056" ], "album": "Hell Up in Harlem", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "79443602-06c1-3c9f-a2ce-a64ea8e4746d", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Rightly revered for the storming protest classic \"War,\" Edwin Starr didn't really need another hit to achieve legendary status in soul circles, so electrifying was that single performance. Starr first made his name as \"Agent Double-O-Soul,\" and when his contract was transferred to Motown, he instantly became one of the roughest, toughest vocalists on the crossover-friendly label, with his debt to James Brown and the Stax soul shouters. Even if nothing else ever matched the phenomenon of \"War,\" Starr had several Top Ten hits on the R&B charts over the late '60s and early '70s, and also enjoyed a brief renaissance during the disco era.\" (allmusic's Steve Huey): https://bit.ly/3NUw4XI.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612233, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612233/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:18:24-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/014f024c-14a2-4556-be9b-300fe5752046/13114877427-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/014f024c-14a2-4556-be9b-300fe5752046/13114877427-250.jpg", "song": "Heart’s Desire", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4ba1e8c4-04ef-4d9a-bf37-4ec64660c797", "artist": "Don Blackman", "artist_ids": [ "20e5ca41-9bc6-44df-a55f-63ff2b5edaa8" ], "album": "Don Blackman", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "750aced8-e119-39b5-9952-3a84b19b3f05", "labels": [ "Arista" ], "label_ids": [ "c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Pianist/singer/songwriter Don Blackman, born in 1953 in Queens, New York, grew up surrounded by jazz influences; a cousin was McCoy Tyner's friend and saxophonist Charles McPherson -- a Charlie Parker disciple -- was Blackman's neighbor. Blackman played with McPherson's group in 1968 alongside Sam Jones and Louis Hayes when he was 15 years old. He switched to electric piano and toured with Parliament/Funkadelic in the early '70s. He later became an original member of Lenny White's Twennynine (\"Peanut Butter\"), a key piece in Jamaica Queens' '70s' jazz-funk explosion. A deal with GRP/Arista birthed the solo LP Don Blackman (1982), a good set saddled by poor promotion. His extensive résumé included Kurtis Blow sessions and singing \"Haboglabotrin\" on Bernard Wright's 'Nard album. A fixture in New York studios, he worked on sessions for a long list of artists including Najee, David Sanborn, and Roy Ayers, and his composition \"Live to Kick It\" graced 2Pac's R U Still Down? (Remember Me) release. Don Blackman died on April 11, 2013 after battling cancer; he was 59 years old.\" (allmusic's Andrew Hamilton) https://bit.ly/4t4PjxQ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3612232, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612232/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:15:48-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Welcome! Today, February 2nd we kick off Black History Month with a day of special programming recognizing the icons who broke barriers and the visionaries who are redefining our future right now.\n\nTune in all day as we celebrate the brilliance, the resilience, and the soul that moves us all forward. Because Black history isn't just the past — it’s the heartbeat of our community every single day.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3612231, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612231/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-02T10:11:12-08:00", "show": 65822, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65822/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Melodies from Heaven", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "09d8424a-0315-4002-8eb6-5422de938f7d", "artist": "Kirk Franklin and the Family", "artist_ids": [ "685332a4-12ed-4c3b-8d0e-04e6a37e28f0" ], "album": "Whatcha Lookin' 4", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c4486524-9d4c-3bea-b579-772a29dc1826", "labels": [ "GospoCentric" ], "label_ids": [ "397dcdd0-47a3-4026-8fb2-fd297aaeaf0f" ], "release_date": "1995-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Whatcha Lookin' 4 is the third album released by Kirk Franklin and The Family, released on April 30, 1996 on GospoCentric Records. With sales of 2 million units, it is one of the best-selling gospel albums of all time.\nAll the songs on the album were written and produced by Franklin except \"Anything 4 U\" (produced by Buster & Shavoni) and \"When I Think About Jesus\", (Public domain, arrangement by Franklin).\n\nKirk Franklin & The Family included the following members: Kirk Franklin, Jeannette Johnson, Keisha Grandy, Terri Pace, Stephanie Glynn, Demetrice \"De\" Clinkscale, Dalon Collins, David Mann, Darrell Blair, Byron Cole, Jon \"J.D.\" Drummond, Yolanda McDonald, Sheila \"Mother\" Brice, Tamela Mann, Theresa Young, Carrie \"Mousey\" Young Davis.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
